Welland

plural Wellands

1. A placename:
   1. countableuncountableA river in Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire, which flows into the Wash, a large bay on the North Sea.

      It must have been the magnetism of the viaduct that towers over the village of Harringworth, and which crosses the flood plain of the River Welland on the border of Rutland and Northamptonshire, which drew my family to living close by when we moved to Britain's smallest county in the early 1990s.

      2021 October 6, John Hillier, “Harringworth's magical viaduct”, in RAIL, number 941, pages 36–37

   2. countableuncountableA village and civil parish (served by Little Malvern and Welland Parish Council) in Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7940).
   3. countableuncountableA river in southern Ontario, Canada, which joins the Niagara River and was named after the English river.
   4. countableuncountableA city on the Welland River in Niagara regional municipality, Ontario.
   5. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Mendota Township, LaSalle County, and Brooklyn Township, Lee County, Illinois, United States.
   6. countableuncountableA suburb of Adelaide in the City of Charles Sturt, South Australia, named after the English village.
2. countableA habitational surname from Old English.